Fredette might not reach Hammon’s all-time WAC record

Jimmer Fredette’s BYU career has seven regular season games, a minimum of one Mountain West Tournament game and at least one NCAA game. During that time, he may put the MWC career scoring record out of reach for all those who follow.

He took over No. 1 on the charts last week and goes into tonight’s game at Air Force with 2,194 points.

That’s nice. But the MWC record book is only 12 years ago. I wondered where Fredette stood on a greater test of time with BYU’s peer group, going back 50 years to the creation of the WAC.

Fredette has some ground to make up. First, he needs 274 points to eclipse Danny Ainge for the BYU record of 2467. Ainge remains No. 2 on the all-time WAC career list. No. 1 is Utah’s Keith Van Horn at 2,542.

Incidentally, the all-time WAC scoring record — male or female — is still owned by former Colorado State All-America Becky Hammon at 2,740 points.